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Seeking Laura Ingalls Wilder Letters and Photographs of Sites

 

During her lifetime as an author, Laura Ingalls Wilder responded to every fan letter she received, until
the last
6 months of her life. She saved the fan letters she received and all are carefully preserved.
Ironically, her responses were scattered to the four winds and while some of come safely to rest in
museums, archives, and libraries across the country, others currently reside in scrapbooks, the backs
of drawers, in musty files, and in old shoe boxes tied up with ribbon and carefully put away. As interest
in Laura continues to grow, now is the time to bring those letters to light.

 

Please help me make sure those letters aren't lost forever. In conjunction with the Laura Ingalls Wilder
Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, I'm seeking photocopies of Laura letters. These would be
scholarly study copies only and will be deposited in the newly built archive room at the
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. We are also seeking photos of any of the
Wilder museum sites pre-1985 or photos of any special local Wilder events, such as gingerbread parties
that you might have attended. If it would be easier, you could also scan them and send them by e-mail.
Thank-you for your help and please help to spread the word.

 

Send photocopies to:

 

Sarah Uthoff

Trundlebed Tales

P.O. Box 111

Solon IA 52333

 

Questions? Contact me at:

info@trundlebedtales.com

This project has now appeared in The Involvement (Heritage Agency on Aging), the
Iowa City Press-Citizen, the Cedar Rapids Gazette, the Dottie Ray Show on KXIC,
on KMRY, in the Society for the History of Children and Youth Newsletter,  in
Cappers (formerly Cappers Weekly), and in Geography News (Geography Alliance
of Iowa).
Please keep it going and pass the word along.

Find the press release online at:

http://www.prlog.org/10016760-seeking-laura-ingalls-wilder-letters.html

 

Find a PDF flyer, if you are willing to put it up at:

 

http://www.trundlebedtales.com/Seeking.pdf 

 

Last Updated: July 20, 2007

 

By Sarah S. Uthoff     info@trundlebedtales.com